Italian food question...Sauce or gravy on pasta?

Question

Are they the same tomato-based things? Is there a different recipe for sauce and gravy or is it just a geographical discrepancy?

Answer 1

The Southern Italians, particularly the Sicilians say "gravy"

Answer 2

Sauce is a generic term that means "liquid poured on food". Gravy is a type of sauce. Gravy is made from the drippings that come from cooking meat. However, gravy is NOT served on pasta in Italian cuisine. Italians use many different sauces on pasta. Usually those sauces have a base of either tomatoes or cream.

Answer 3

It's not a discrepancy. Most italians consider it gravy because they have meat in them. That is the difference between sauce and gravy.

Answer 4

What a bunch of WRONG answers with the exception of a couple. Gravy, Sauce or Ragu are fine. No not the Ragu crap in a jar. If you speak Italian then it's RAGU. Now that that's out of the way, why is that so important? BTW, Real Italians use the terms Spaghetti or Macaroni. Pasta has been used lately.

Answer 5

Real Italians refer to the tomato sauce as gravy.

Answer 6

italiens can have tomatoe based gravy stewed tomatoes spiced in italien seasonings and simmered down with a little beef till its a sauce is so f in good on stuff like meatloaf and mashed poatoes but yes there are normal gravies and typically the tomatoe sauce is a sauce.

Answer 7

Sauce is based usually of tomato or any other vegetable and the gravy is usually based on chicken or beef broth and flour.

Answer 8

It's the same. To me, if it's red then it is sauce. If it's brown, then it's gravy.

Answer 9

sauce is used on pasta just like we eat mashed potatoes and gravy

Answer 10

gravy is usually more thinker than sauce